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Sunday, April 10, 2016

Belgium: Brussels Jewish Museum shooting was the first terror attack by the Islamic State in Europe

Paco Cantero and Ana Pouvreauwrote an article @ Causeur, about the terrorist attacks carried out in Brussels and wonder who had really understood what had been simmering in "Molenbeekistan" (a reference to Molenbeek, a Brussels district known to have become an Islamic terrorist hub).

The authors make the interesting, but generally neglected point, that the Jewish Museum shooting was the first attack by the
Islamic State in Europe and "the first anti-Jewish attack in Brussels
since the Second World War", as noted by Maurice Sosnowski,
the then president of the Committee of Jewish Organizations in Belgium.

Mehdi Nemmouche at the Museum

They state that the attack perpetrated at the Jewish Museum by French islamist Mehdi Nemmouche in 2014, which left four dead, should have prompted the Belgian people to come out of their lethargy and the political authorities to take appropriate measures to avoir further bloodshed.What is in no doubt, they argue, is that for many Belgians the attack had targeted a particular community and as such they saw no reason to be unduly concerned.